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Find additional works at: http://yul-fi-uat1.library.yale.internal LG1 • JUN 19 1967

18 June 1967

Professor Neustadt should have sent over to your office my paper, "Formulation of American Foreign Policy in Crisis Situations," which I wrote for his seminar, Gov 254. When I talked to you in March, you expressed an interest in seeing this paper when it was finished. Ply original intention to focus on "bureaucratic-pragmatic style" has been somewhat diverted to an attempt to suggest elements in a typology of crises. The broader theme of style still remains, however, the concern underlying my whole current approach to a thesis topic.

I would appreciate it if you would read this paper and then give me your comments, especially with regard to the following points: Is there something grossly wrong with this approach -- such as dangerous oversimplification, naivete, unsupportable assertions, or poorly phrased categories? Even if so, is there any merit in trying to continue this effort and expand it into some kind of thesis? What omissions, inclusions, or revisions would put me on the track of a worthwhile thesis?

If you should wish to make your comments by letter before I return to Cambridge in mid-September, I would certainly be grateful. But that is not essential since I am fully occupied working here for the Navy Department and do not expect to have much time for thesis-related work.

Thank you again for your advice. st,u4tApt i3t,..6.4 t Charles Stevenson 126 - 11 th St., SE , D.C. 20003

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Mr. Charles Stevenson 126 Eleventh Street, S.E. Washington, D.C. 20003

Dear Charles:

Thank you for your letter of Tune 18.

As you probably know, Mr. Kissinger is at present in Europe but I will bring your letter and paper to his attention when he returns at the beginning of next month.

Yours sincerely,

Phoebe Lambert Secretary to Mr. Kissinger

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MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY EAST LANSING • 48823

JAMES MADISON COLLEGE • OFFICE OF THE DEAN

January 19, 1970

Dr. Henry Kissinger Adviser to the President The White House Washington, D.C.

Dear Dr. Kissinger:

Charles A. Stevenson is applying for a position on our faculty and has given your name as a reference. Would you please give us your evaluation of his teaching and research abilities.

Enclosed is a brochure on College which may help you in evaluating his suitability for our undergraduate social science curriculum.

Sincerely yours,

C*4-7t Thet- Lee Ann Matthews Assistant to the Dean

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• lege curriculum is designed to enable a student JAMES MADISON COLLEGE FACULTY to postpone a total commitment to the College JAMES DEAN: until the beginning of the junior year. Fresh- Herbert Garfinkel, Ph.D., Chicago, Political men and sophomores satisfy the general educa- Science tion requirements of the University and sample enough of the James Madison program to be PROFESSORS: MADISON able to choose between the policy problems Albert A. Blum, Ph.D., Columbia, History Wesley R. Fishel, Ph.D., Chicago, curriculum and other units of the University. Robert L. Green, Ph.D., Michigan State, Credits earned in James Madison College are Educational acceptable for most majors in the social sciences Dale E. Hathaway, D.P.A., Harvard, Agricultural COLLEGE and and can readily be transferred John B. Holt, Ph.D., Heidelberg, to other programs. Counselors work closely Iwao Ishino, Ph.D., Harvard, Anthropology James B. McKee, Ph.D., Wisconsin, Sociology with students to maintain adequate flexibility Allan A. Spitz, Ph.D., Michigan State, Political in the early period of matriculation. Science Lewis K.Zerby, Ph.D.,Iowa, Approximately half of the courses taken by VISITING PROFESSOR: James Madison students over the four years Frances R. Cousens, Ph.D., Wayne State, Sociology are provided within the College. Of these some are designed especially for the fields of ASSISTANT PROFESSORS: concentration in the policy sciences. .Some re- Carl Baar, M.A., Chicago, Political Science Abner S. Baker, Ph.D., Oregon, History quired courses and a number of electives are Robert F. Banks, Ph.D., London, Labor and taken outside the College to round out major Industrial Relations, Associate Dean fields of study or to satisfy individual interests. Raymond Cochrane, Ph.D., Wales, Psychology Bruce Curtis, Ph.D.,Iowa, American Thought and Language ADMISSION TO JAMES MADISON Chitra M. Smith, M.A., Oxford, History COLLEGE Grafton Trout, M.A.,Indiana, Sociology George F. Will, Ph.D., Princeton, Political Science Any student who can qualify for admission INSTRUCTORS: to Michigan State University and who is willing Stuart A. Bremer, MA., Michigan State, Political to work hard, whether an average Science A word about the name of our College: or an honors Conrad Donakowski, M.A., Xavier, Humanities student, can be admitted to James Madison John A. Forman, MA.,Pennsylvania, American James Madison is popularly and rightly known College. Though Madison is not an honors Thought and Language as "Father of the American ." As Gary J. Frost, MA., Kent State, Sociology; coauthor of , he applied a college, all James Madison honors students Assistant Dean, Director of Student Relations qualify simultaneously for membership in the R. William Holland, M.A., Michigan State, Political sophisticated understanding of human behavior Michigan State University Honors College. Science to an analysis of the means by which a demo- Charles II. Levine, MA.,Indiana, Political Science Vaughn H. Lueck, M.A., Minnesota, Geography cratic republic could be established and endure. Interested individuals are welcome to visit G. Peter Lyman, M.A., California, Political Science He devoted his final years to higher education the College or to write for further information Nancy J. Marshall, B.A., Oregon, Psychology as Rector of the . Bruce L. Miller, M.A., Western Reserve, to the Office of the Dean, James Madison Col- Philosophy lege, Case Hall, Michigan State University, John E. Paynter, M.A., Chicago, Political Science James Madison College of Michigan State Elliot K. Wicks, MA.,Northwestern, Economics University is dedicated to carrying forward the East Lansing, Michigan 48823. M. Richard Zinman, M.A., Claremont, Political Science Madisonian tradition of scholarship devoted to Applications for admission should be ad- public service. ASSISTANT INSTRUCTORS: dressed to the Michigan State University Ad- Michigan State University Linda Hoyer, M.A., Michigan State, Drama "The diffusion of knowledge is the only guard- missions Office, Student Services Building, East LeeAnn Matthews, M.A., Michigan State, Political Lansing, Michigan 48823. Science ian of true liberty." —James Madison East Lansing, Michigan 48823 A POLICY PROBLEMS APPROACH troduce the policy science curriculum and to methods course provided by the College or A SMALL RESIDENTIAL COLLEGE AT TO SOCIAL SCIENCE fulfill the Michigan State University general statistics and methodology courses available in MICHIGAN STATE UNIVERSITY education requirement in social science. other units of the University. The curriculum of James Madison College James Madison College provides a four-year is designed to infuse social science analysis Writing Practicum. Competency in writing Field Experience Program. During their jun- liberal arts program leading to a Bachelor of with the natural excitement of students begin- is strongly emphasized for all students. Assist- ior year, students participate in an off-campus Arts degree in the social sciences. A primary ning to grapple with the complex problems of ance in developing this competency is provided field experience program for which they earn objective of this experimental college is to the contemporary world. Major social, eco- by a communication skills program, by writing one full term of academic credits. The pur- combine the advantages of a small residential nomic and political policy problems provide coaches, and by term paper and other writing pose of the program is to give every student college with the substantial facilities of a major the focus for multidisciplinary studies. This assignments. All James Madison students are an opportunity to observe the policy-making university. Harmonious integration between approach draws upon many fields of knowledge required to write at least one substantial (20- process at work in a public or private organiza- curricular and extracurricular activities is en- in the social sciences and in related disciplines. 30 page) documented paper per year. It can tion related to his academic studies. Oppor- couraged by housing classrooms, cultural pro- Students elect one of several policy problem be written in conjunction with any acceptable tunities may be available in metropolitan, state grams, student social and dormitory rooms, and areas in which to concentrate their studies. At course — Madison College or other — or as and Federal governments, at the United Na- faculty offices in a single residential-academic present five policy problems areas are offered: approved independent study. tions, or in the offices of a trade union, cham- setting on the Michigan State University ber of commerce, agricultural organization, po- campus. 1. Ethnic and Religious Intergroup .1,ormnr, litical party or other voluntary association. The Relations field work can be used as a trial internship in an The small college atmosphere lends itself to 2. International Relations agency relevant to a prospective career, such an emphasis on teaching and to close relations 3. , and Constitutional as the Peace Corps, or for practice teaching. between students and faculty. Seminars, lec- frommirmoh tures, team teaching, tutorials, field work, and 4. Socio-Economic Regulation and Welfare OPPORTUNITIES FOR MADISON independent study provide varied modes of in- 5. Urban Community COLLEGE GRADUATES struction. Supplementing formal coursework, the College provides an extensive co-curricular The faculty has been brought together from Students who successfully complete their program of guest speakers, films and panel dis- a number of related disciplines: anthropology, course of study in James Madison College are cussions. Emphasis is placed on periodic coun- economics, geography, history, philosophy, awarded a Michigan State University Bachelor seling to aid students in planning individual political science, psychology, sociology, statis- of Arts degree in social science. Although the programs. Student views and proposals are tics and methodology. Supplementing the curriculum is designed for liberal rather than regularly sought concerning the governing and faculty are visiting practitioners from public specifically vocational education, the policy development of the College. Student and fac- and private organizations associated with the approach offers preparation for many careers ulty members of James Madison College con- policy-making process. in such fields as journalism, business, law, sec- stitute a community of mutually assisting schol- Foreign Language. The minimal foreign lan- ondary school and junior college teaching, vol- ars at various stages of individual development. A BALANCED EDUCATIONAL guage requirement is (a) second-year univer- untary association administration, and public PROGRAM sity-level proficiency in one language, or (b) service. To facilitate preparation for particular At the same time, James Madison students first-year proficiency in a language plus at least careers or post-graduate study, Madison stu- are full members of the Michigan State Univer- James Madison College helps students to nine credits in courses (e.g., history, geography, dents may undertake coordinate majors in one sity student body. They share the benefits of develop competency in writing, foreign lan- political science) dealing with a related foreign of several social science and related fields, e.g., all common programs and facilities — a library guage, and research methods, and provides op- area. More advanced study is needed for such anthropology, economics, geography, history, of over one million volumes, the Student portunities for practical experiences in their programs as international relations. journalism, philosophy, political science, psych- Union, intramural and intercollegiate athletics, policy problem field of concentration. In addi- ology, sociology, social work, and TV and radio. lecture-concert programs, all-University student tion, students receive a basic general education Methodology. Some knowledge of quanti- government and numerous extra-curricular in humanities and , as well as tative research methods is a prerequisite to un- CURRICULAR ADAPTABILITY clubs and they take approximately half of in social science. In their first year they take derstanding modern social science data. All their courses in other units of the University. a three-term sequence, "Introduction to the James Madison students take at least one course Since many undergraduates develop their Study of Policy Problems," which serves to in- in methodology — either the introductory academic interests slowly, the Madison Col-